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Wet dress rehearsal likely in the next few days. Hopefully launch soon after?
Excited to see that baby fly
Hoping it’ll make a succesfull launch this time. Seeing Vulcan make a good launch in Januari using the BE-4 probably made the folks at SpaceX pretty nervous, lets hope the Raptor engines can do the same. Then we can hopefully see an actual testflight of the HLS configuration.
Hmm? New Glenn and Vulcan compete with Falcon, not Starship, and the Raptors looked great on IFT-2.
New Glenn is pretty well in between Falcon 9 and Starship. Depending on launch costs, I could see a market for all three LVs.
New Glenn is slated as the first stage for the Blue Moon lander. As Starship/HLS is using Superheavy to do the same thing. So they’re sort-of-comparable, especially now that Blue Moon is the planned lander for Artemis V.
the Raptors looked great on IFT-2.
Fair point. They probably did.
I was thinking in terms of payloads to different orbits, but you’re right that the Blue Moon HLS architecture is now a lot closer to the Starship one.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters BE-4 Blue Engine 4 methalox rocket engine, developed by Blue Origin (2018), 2400kN ETOV Earth To Orbit Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”) HLS Human Landing System (Artemis) LV Launch Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”), see ETOV Jargon Definition Raptor Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX methalox Portmanteau: methane fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.
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